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battery arching

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so I was installing my new battery. I have to connect the negetive before I put the battery put in the battery. as I bumped the side of the battery box the pos. terminal arched. is this normal or do I have a bad ground?
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So, did the pos term touch the frame at all? Or did it just arc when the battery was bumped? If it did it when the battery was bumped, then that is not normal.
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So, did the pos term touch the frame at all? Or did it just arc when the battery was bumped? If it did it when the battery was bumped, then that is not normal.
However if the positive terminal touched the frame it would arc.
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Oh of course, dead short. If the terminal arcs just from bumping though, that is bad.
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The pos terminal is what arched. Hadn't pot the pos cable on yet.
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If it touched metal/frame it would arc. Did it touch metal? When installing a battery, you should always connect the positive, and then the negative. When removing a battery you do just the opposite. Remove the negative first, and then the positive. Doing it this way, you will not make an arc welder out of your wrench it hit metal while installing/removing the positive cable.
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Never confuse education for intelligence.
Happiness is a belt fed weapon.
I just can't imagine what could go wrong.
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It couldn't be done, but the darn fool didn't know it, and did it anyway.
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1977 CB 750-A X 4
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1976 CB 750 F
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Do the C's have the same battery cage as the F&K's do? With the two-piece positive cable? I know on mine I have to put the positive cable on first thing before I even slide it in the cage.

Something somewhere touched something if it created enough of an amp draw to produce an arc.